Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sills back into English history, where in recent years she has triumphed in the Donizetti trilogy devoted to three queens-Elizabeth I (Roberto Devereux), Maria Stuarda and Anna Bolena. I Puritani was the last opera Bellini wrote before he died in 1835 at age 33. Its graceful and ornate vocal writing actually suits Sills' light voice better than Donizetti's heavyweight scores. This is music to float jewels on. Sills' succession of bravura displays in the mad scene ("Qui la voce sua soave ") is like a string of emeralds, each deeper and more lustrous in color...
...rear of the crowd, protesters carried signs that read: IMPEACH AND IMPRISON. EXORCISE NIXON. Throughout Nixon's speech, hecklers were highly vocal. When he vowed that "no American will ever be denied health care because of lack of ability to pay," someone shouted: "Pay your taxes...
Harvard's varsity hockey team, with the help of John Aiken's superb goaltending, overcame injury and illness last night to pull out a 3-2 overtime victory against Northeastern University before a small but vocal crowd in Boston Arena...
...Love You." Being a popularizer of linguistics is no easy task. When he gets to "paralanguage"-the meanings resident in the ways words are voiced -Farb begins to belabor the obvious. Every lover knows that "I love you" is a vocal variable, to be interpreted by the vibrations. In his enthusiasm for "body language"-the things said by facial expressions, gestures, posture -Farb goes far beyond most scholars of the new linguistics. "Pupil performance," he proclaims, "does not depend so much upon a school's audio-visual equipment or new textbooks or enriching trips to museums as it does...
David Bromberg. Bromberg is steadily growing from underground sensation to popular legend, spreading his humor, distinctive vocal style, and impeccable guitar wizardry from coast to coast. Bromberg used to play back-up for Jerry Jeff Walker and just about outdoes his former boss on Walker's biggest song, "Mr. Bojangles." Bromberg's own songs are marked by a winning, talking blues kind of humor. On guitar, he does everything from blues and ballads to Irish fiddle tunes. Bromberg's club concerts are reputedly not to be missed. This weekend, Cambridge gets its chance not to miss him. Thursday-Saturday, February...